August 17, 2017

The once-unthinkable evil of modern Republicanism

E.J. Dionne wrote this conclusion for today's column, but it could apply to virtually any week of this most wretched of administrations:

"Every new Trump outrage seems to invite bold declarations that this time will be the end of the line. If this week’s spectacle of moral obtuseness isn’t the breaking point, may God save our republic."

Throughout most of Tuesday and well into Wednesday, I believed that Trump's obtuseness in defending neo-Nazis — neo-Nazis! for Christ's sake — would indeed be the end of the line. Here was an unimaginable low, even for Trump: equating a hateful ideology that murdered millions with the activists protesting it. Surely this time Republican pols would draw a line, and declare Trump at its end.

Instead, one could just about write the names of publicly outraged Republican pols on a postage stamp.

We all know that the GOP is sick, that it's been terribly sick for some time. But I would have never imagined that congressional Republicans would sink so far into such a massive suppuration of partisan vileness — that they, by and large, would forgive a U.S. president his outspoken neo-Nazi proclivities.

God save the republic? We'll be all right. Rather I might advise asking that God damn the GOP — although it seems he already has.

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The once-unthinkable evil of modern Republicanism

E.J. Dionne wrote this conclusion for today's column, but it could apply to virtually any week of this most wretched of administrations:

"Every new Trump outrage seems to invite bold declarations that this time will be the end of the line. If this week’s spectacle of moral obtuseness isn’t the breaking point, may God save our republic."

Throughout most of Tuesday and well into Wednesday, I believed that Trump's obtuseness in defending neo-Nazis — neo-Nazis! for Christ's sake — would indeed be the end of the line. Here was an unimaginable low, even for Trump: equating a hateful ideology that murdered millions with the activists protesting it. Surely this time Republican pols would draw a line, and declare Trump at its end.

Instead, one could just about write the names of publicly outraged Republican pols on a postage stamp.

We all know that the GOP is sick, that it's been terribly sick for some time. But I would have never imagined that congressional Republicans would sink so far into such a massive suppuration of partisan vileness — that they, by and large, would forgive a U.S. president his outspoken neo-Nazi proclivities.

God save the republic? We'll be all right. Rather I might advise asking that God damn the GOP — although it seems he already has.